COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONIndia pale ale’s were designed to withstand the long voyage to India. Today, it seems one has to design the IPA strong and hoppy enough to make the trip back as well. Vortex IPA is the Fort George’s first foray into this strong beer category. Our IPA is made with generous additions of cascade, Simcoe and Palisade hops throughout the brewing, fermentation and conditioning phases, balanced with heaps of organic pale malt. We designed this to not rip your taste buds off your tongue, but rather vigorously stimulate them and your palate into a lupulin-ecstacy of pleasure. During the cross-country truck trip our brewery made to find it’s home in Astoria, it was nearly scattered to the cornfields of Nebraska by a tornado. We try to capture some of nature’s intensity in every pint. IBU 97

This is my third one and this one was currently poured into a pint glass.
Bottom of the can said "12/09/14.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy orange color. A fair amount of floaties roamed about with a thin sixteenth finger’s worth of white semi-foamy head that dissipated within a decent twenty seconds. Light spider web to off sort of all over lacing speckled the glass all around.
The smell had a fairly decent malted grapefruit-esque to slight piney to floral part coming about.
The taste was fairly bittersweet with a fairly leading grapefruity to piney edge and leading to a smoothed out sort of decent citrus aftertaste. A fairly nice palatable semi-dry finish accompanies the aftertaste.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent carbonation to it. 7.5%, hmmmm....canning date, makes me think, hmmmm....yeah, well, uh...(wishing for something just a tad fresher).
Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA, however, I wish I had this a tad bit fresher, ah, oh well.

Poured from a 16 oz can into a beer can glass on 01.27.15.
A: Grapefruit and biscuity malt. Very citrusy.
A: 2 finger head that is retained. See through amber body with some unfiltered chunks.
T: Grapefruit and earthy biscuit dominate. Tangerine and some spice are more subtle.
P: Crisp and a bit chewy. I like it.
O: This wasn’t very bitter. It didn’t seem like 97 IBU, but FG wrote on the label that they wanted to balance the hops. It was easy drinking. I’d buy it again.

A wonderful NW IPA. Pours a little cloudy, but a pretty color. Nice floral, and fruity aroma. I love grapefruit flavors in IPAs, and this one does not disappoint. Nice bitter finish with a little pine.

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